You can smell the Horse in this tune. This is an incredibly unhinged, grunged-out version of "Hey Hey My My" with over-the-top, twisted guitar work and feedback/distortion. If you're a fan of the Horse, you'll like this one. And even if you're not, you should watch and listen anyway.
The performance is from the 2001 Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
A REAL Brain-teaser
This is one of those great stunts where your brain works far differently than you might expect. Sometimes I wonder how we even remember to breathe!
Video: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, and Henry Winkler support Barack Obama
Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, and Henry Winkler got together to make a little call to action for Candidate Obama...it's pretty funny and well-directed (I assume by Howard).
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d
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Safe To Pee?
A toilet in a Turkish bus station (summer 2008)
Here may be one more reason to love the internet. Now, http://safe2pee.org is undoubtedly a niche group. But what is the internet, but a conglomeration of niche groups?
I'm still young enough, dumb enough, or oblivious enough to not mind using a public facility. But this web site is dedicated to people who would like, say, more secure facilities:
"The goal of the project is to create a resource where people who do not feel comfortable with traditional public restrooms can find safe alternatives, and to support advocacy and research to further the cause of gender free, inclusive bathrooms. The service aims to be accessible from a variety of mediums (computer, cell phone browser, maybe even a call-in number?)."
They hope to be able to direct you via facebook, the internet, feeds, your iPhone or BlackBerry, or your computer to the right location for a more secure session in the loo.
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POTUS 16 - Lanky Link a/k/a Abraham Lincoln, the savior of America
Click to enlarge President Lincoln, or Lanky Link, as Lord Buckley called him
Abraham Lincoln built the (now demonized) Republican Party into a strong national organization and brought the northern Democrats into the Union fold. With little choice, he went to war against his own countrymen. In 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves in the Confederacy. In reality, that would take a while, and many people think we're still working at it.
He made a few jokes about his face, and truth be told, in many of those daguerreotypes he looks like he is carrying the weight of the world. The contemporary painter Mark Ryden often includes an image of Lincoln in his paintings.
He never got to fully preside over the peace, because he was assassinated on April 14, 1865, by a deranged actor and supreme P.O.S., John Wilkes Boothe.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Barack Obama, socialist-communist-stalinist?
The far right opposition has attempted to tar Barack Obama with a wide range of labels now. Left-wing, terrorist, America-hater, revolutionary, Muslim, radical, Arab, rookie, opportunist, and in the last couple of weeks, socialist. And in the desperate last 12 days to the election, some folks on the deranged right are using the word "communist." The communist accusation has recently gone mainstream, after earlier being largely confined to far right wacko blogs and web sites. The G.I.S. on Obama+Communist turns up 3,700,000 hits (a few of which direct to All This Is That).
Communist? You have to wonder what 1950's bomb shelter these morons have crawled out from. Now, blinking into the daylight after all these years, the best they can do is lob communist? I heard Mark Levin today go so far as to call him part of that communist sub-specialty--Stalinist!
Largely ignored this last week or so is the comprehensive--and damning--Rolling Stone article on John McCain's character, "Make Believe Maverick." I highly recommend you read this article if you are considering voting for John McCain. And if you're not voting for McCain, it's still worth a read, if only to confirm your inner wisdom and superior judgment of character!
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The Weekly World News is back!
After going belly-up over a year ago, my favorite tabloid is back. For now, the Weekly World News is publishing online only. Here are a couple of photos from resurrected News. The one above is an alien endorsing Obama for President, and the one below is Sarah Palin after she bagged a Sasquatch.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
An interesting meme making the internet rounds: McCain v. Obama -- what if?
This meme is circulating all around the internet right now. . .
What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?
(The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn’t read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama’s family had made their money from beer distribution?
What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?
You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization inInternational Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
John McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899
Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism
Education isn’t everything & there is no doubt that experience can get you to high places, but this is about the two highest offices in the land as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.
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POTUS 15: President James Buchanan, The Man Who Left A Divided Country And War For Abraham Lincoln
click to enlarge
James Buchanan rose from the state legislature to representative, senator and cabinet member. He made a run at the White House in 1844, 1848, and 1852 before finally winning in 1856.
In the 1850s, the question of slavery divided the United States. People hoped that the new President, "Old Buck," was the man to prevent a national crisis. He failed miserably. During his administration, the Union broke apart, and when he left office, civil war was just around the corner.
By 1856, the debates over slavery had reached hysterical intensity, with abolitionists and proslavery forces alike advocating violence and resorting to it frequently.
Two days after Buchanan's inauguration, the Supreme Court announced the Dred Scott decision. Influenced by the new President's pro-southern interests, the Court ruled that because slaves (and former slaves) were not citizens, they had no right to sue for freedom. The court also invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which banned slavery in the portion of the Louisiana Purchase above 36 degrees latitude. Republicans denounced the decision and vowed to repudiate it.
America was hopelessly divided. The Republicans were anti-slavery Northerners, and the Democrats, mostly were the southerners and their northern states' right allies.
In 1859, John Brown seized the southern town of Harpers Ferry in Virginia in an attempt to spark an uprising of slaves. Brown was captured and hanged but this only fanned the flames.
The Democratic Party finally broke in two. Abraham Lincoln, an unknown lawyer from the insurgents--yes!, the Republican Party---won the White House. The election of a Northerner opposed to slavery outside the south was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Six weeks after Abraham Lincoln's election, South Carolina left the Union, and six other states soon followed. Lame Duck Buchanan did nothing to stop the secessions, which strengthened the young Confederacy and gave seceding states time to set up a government.
Buchanan was eager to depart the White House before the real disaster. On leaving office, he saw only close friends until his death in 1868.
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Poem: Why are bubbles round?
1
Bubbles are round because Mother Earth
And the moon are round,
Because the sea-tumbled grey and green pebbles
Are round, and the clock,
Compass, sextant, disk, L.E.D.,
And ring of fire, are round.
2
Bubbles are round because water molecules
Are attracted downward and inward,
Creating a fragile skin of surface tension
That cradles water like a baby.
3
Bubbles are round because tension
Draws the water into its most compact shape
And the most compact shape—
On this planet—is a ball.
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